Paradachshund
@Paradachshund@lemmy.today
- Comment on Keep gambling 💰🤑 2 days ago:
This explains a lot because I hate gambling
- Comment on Good morning. 4 days ago:
Maybe they ai generated the coverup
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
My dad does this so much and I asked him about it once. He said he thinks it makes everything sound very chill and low pressure. I think it makes everything sound passive aggressive, or like it’s a loaded statement🤦♂️
- Comment on Sounds like a problem for them, not me. 1 week ago:
That’s a good manager! I’ve been lucky enough to have some like that, too, but sadly not everywhere.
- Comment on Sounds like a problem for them, not me. 1 week ago:
Entirely depends on the job, and also some states have more protections than others. “Hustle culture” is really engrained over here though and there can be a lot of guilt for many people around asking for time off, both internalized guilt for the worker and actual guilt tripping from managers if you have a toxic work place.
We don’t have a culture of going on holiday in America like parts of Europe do, so I think it’s not as normalized and there’s often a feeling of pressure to only do it when others aren’t so that the company is still well staffed.
It’s all very toxic, but I think people are also starting to realize how toxic it is in the past several years and there’s more and more acknowledgement between workers at least that we should be taking our time off.
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 week ago:
I do wish it was slightly shorter. They just don’t make small enough phones anymore for my taste.
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 week ago:
I have the same problem and my latest was an asus zenfone after a ton of research. Its been pretty solid actually.
- Comment on I don't need no app 1 week ago:
On mine it just has “get new advertising ID”
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure chatgpt just tells you how it works, so they probably just memorized what it said.
- Comment on Thanks Duo, I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about a coquettish green owl-unicorn 2 weeks ago:
As a 4 dimensional extraplanar entity, we can never perceive Duo’s true majesty. All we can catch are glimpses of his totality.
- Comment on Puff Variety 2 weeks ago:
Chee-tots
- Comment on New No Man's Sky update adds walkable gas giants among "trillions" of new planets, just in case you were running out 3 weeks ago:
They kept saying gas giants in the trailer and I was like “are you not going to show them?”
Finally realized the rocky worlds they were walking on were the “gas” giants. I’m sure they’re cool but they just looked like extra-stormy planets.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director thinks GTA 6 might have the "clout" to normalise a $100 price tag 4 weeks ago:
Glad you had that last paragraph, because inflationary justifications are just hand waving when people’s income isn’t keeping pace. It’s not based in reality.
- Comment on Help me out: which looks better for the Duck - the neck tie or the bow tie? 5 weeks ago:
Bowtie
- Comment on Sony is working on Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2 movies 1 month ago:
I think both of these could be great movies, but could also be done extremely poorly (especially helldivers). I hope they get people who like and understand the IPs for these ones.
- Comment on Fallout creator asks why triple-A RPGs focus on violence, doesn't provide very hopeful answer 1 month ago:
Humans are space orks. We like da fighty tings.
- Comment on Anon visits America 1 month ago:
Damn that sounds good! I love hole in the wall places like that. I miss my old favorite spot in Seattle, 206 Burger Company. It wasn’t the fanciest or super over the top, but they just hit right and they (at least used to) have pretty good prices too.
- Comment on Anon visits America 1 month ago:
It would be interesting to have a poll by country about what people think a burger is.
- Comment on Anon visits America 1 month ago:
It’s interesting reading responses on this because I’m gathering a lot of Europeans/non-americans think that burgers are always fast food?
When an american thinks of a good burger I think most of us are picturing our favorite bar and grill’s burger, not a chain fast food one.
Are burgers pretty much only at fast food chains in other countries?
- Comment on How long does it take for Jade Fragments to respawn? 2 months ago:
You might know this already, but if you run out on one character you can switch characters and get more again (up to that cap the other person mentioned). If you get the portal tome and put it in a shared inventory slot it makes it a breeze to switch.
- Comment on [Rant] Mount Balrior Raid Expert is the worst that could happen to raiding 2 months ago:
It’s the classic achievement trap. Any time you put achievements into a group space, it causes distortions to gameplay patterns as people try and get the achievement over the main objective of the encounter. This one sounds pretty bad, though. It definitely seems poorly thought out.
- Comment on We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024) 2 months ago:
Things like apkmirror are doing god’s work as far as I’m concerned. No problems with them at all.
- Comment on We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024) 2 months ago:
I was really shocked at the speed of it. Very surreal experience.
- Comment on We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024) 2 months ago:
Totally agreed on that. Sorry didn’t mean to derail the thread. I just thought someone might be interested to know about the automated stuff.
- Comment on We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024) 2 months ago:
Sounds believable. We definitely didn’t download it so I couldn’t say for sure.
- Comment on We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024) 2 months ago:
I learned when I released an unsuccessful mobile game a couple years ago that there are apparently automated piracy sites out there. I say that because we found a seemingly hacked version of the game on some sketchy app sites just a week after releasing it (and nobody knew about our game, so I highly doubt it was done by hand).
- Comment on Gentlemen, it's with a great pleasure I inform you that Do Not Press The Button has hit 7000 wishlists 2 months ago:
As a fellow spare time dev who dreams of having that much success, I feel your pain, and also want to wish you a heartfelt congratulations. That’s a massive achievement! I hope you have success with it whenever you launch. 👏
- Comment on Issues with the current free to play model (The Bazaar) 3 months ago:
Oh I see. Sorry for the off-topic response then!
It’s a shame that multiplayer games really struggle with paid models these days. It heavily cut into a player base if things aren’t free to play. That kind of forces all but the biggest releases to turn to other monetization models in order to keep the base game free.
- Comment on Issues with the current free to play model (The Bazaar) 3 months ago:
I think it’s tough with card games because they come from a physical form of lootboxes. Being expensive is kind of baked into their lineage. Collecting cards is a big part of the fun, and if you made it very easy to do I think it’s hard to say whether people would enjoy them as much.
I don’t play any collectible card games anymore because I don’t want to pay for it anymore, but there is something very entertaining about the model even if it’s easy to argue it’s a scummy business model by today’s standards.
I haven’t looked into this game beyond your description, but it does sound like a pretty weird model. Do you also have to pay for cards on top of that?
I remember kind of disliking the arena system in hearthstone because I liked the game mode a lot, but as a casual player it was really hard to get to play it much. I guess they wanted to keep people from spending all their time there since you didn’t need to buy cards to play. I much preferred magic arena’s drafts where you pay an upfront cost but get to keep all the cards you played with. Much more accessible for casual players and more satisfying, too, since you always get something out of it.
- Comment on Calculatable 3 months ago:
You mean CE doesnt stand for “clear everything”? And here I thought more letters meant more clearing.